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GET_MEMPOLICY(2)           Linux Programmer's Manual          GET_MEMPOLICY(2)



 

NAME


       get_mempolicy - Retrieve NUMA memory policy for a process

 

SYNOPSIS


       #include 

       int get_mempolicy(int *mode, unsigned long *nodemask,
                         unsigned long maxnode, unsigned long addr,
                         unsigned long flags);

       Link with -lnuma

 

DESCRIPTION






       get_mempolicy()  retrieves the NUMA policy of the calling process or of
       a memory address, depending on the setting of flags.

       A NUMA machine has different memory  controllers  with  different  dis-
       tances  to  specific  CPUs.   The memory policy defines from which node
       memory is allocated for the process.

       If flags is specified as 0, then information  about  the  calling  pro-
       cess's default policy (as set by set_mempolicy(2)) is returned.

       If  flags specifies MPOL_F_ADDR, then information is returned about the
       policy governing the memory address given in addr.  This policy may  be
       different  from  the process's default policy if mbind(2) or one of the
       helper functions described in numa(3) has been used to establish a pol-
       icy for the memory range containing addr.

       If  the  mode argument is not NULL, then get_mempolicy() will store the
       policy mode of the requested NUMA policy in the location pointed to  by
       this  argument.   If nodemask is not NULL, then the nodemask associated
       with the policy will be stored in the location pointed to by this argu-
       ment.  maxnode specifies the number of node IDs that can be stored into
       nodemask--that is, the maximum node ID plus one.  The  value  specified
       by maxnode is always rounded to a multiple of sizeof(unsigned long).

       If  flags  specifies  both MPOL_F_NODE and MPOL_F_ADDR, get_mempolicy()
       will return the node ID of the node on which the address addr is  allo-
       cated  into  the  location pointed to by mode.  If no page has yet been
       allocated for the specified address, get_mempolicy()  will  allocate  a
       page  as  if  the  process  had  performed a read [load] access to that
       address, and return the ID of the node where that page was allocated.

       If flags specifies MPOL_F_NODE, but not MPOL_F_ADDR, and the  process's
       current  policy is MPOL_INTERLEAVE, then get_mempolicy() will return in
       the location pointed to by a non-NULL mode argument, the node ID of the
       next  node  that will be used for interleaving of internal kernel pages
       allocated on behalf of the process.  These  allocations  include  pages
       for  memory  mapped  files  in  process  memory ranges mapped using the
       mmap(2) call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag for read accesses, and in memory
       ranges mapped with the MAP_SHARED flag for all accesses.

       Other flag values are reserved.

       For an overview of the possible policies see set_mempolicy(2).

 

RETURN VALUE


       On  success,  get_mempolicy()  returns  0; on error, -1 is returned and
       errno is set to indicate the error.

 

ERRORS


       EFAULT Part of all of the memory range specified by nodemask and  maxn-
              ode points outside your accessible address space.

       EINVAL The  value  specified by maxnode is less than the number of node
              IDs supported by the system.  Or flags  specified  values  other
              than  MPOL_F_NODE or MPOL_F_ADDR; or flags specified MPOL_F_ADDR
              and addr is NULL, or flags did not specify MPOL_F_ADDR and  addr
              is   not   NULL.    Or,  flags  specified  MPOL_F_NODE  but  not
              MPOL_F_ADDR and the current process policy  is  not  MPOL_INTER-
              LEAVE.  (And there are other EINVAL cases.)

 

CONFORMING TO


       This system call is Linux-specific.

 

NOTES


       If  the  mode of the process policy or the policy governing allocations
       at  the  specified  address  is  MPOL_PREFERRED  and  this  policy  was
       installed with an empty nodemask--specifying local allocation, get_mem-
       policy() will return the mask of  on-line  node  IDs  in  the  location
       pointed  to  by  a non-NULL nodemask argument.  This mask does not take
       into consideration any administratively  imposed  restrictions  on  the
       process's context.

   Versions and Library Support
       See mbind(2).

 

SEE ALSO


       getcpu(2), mbind(2), mmap(2), set_mempolicy(2), numa(3), numactl(8)

 

COLOPHON


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       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                             2007-08-27                  GET_MEMPOLICY(2)